Out of Africa

RIDGEFIELD, CT –Rockwell Art

Galleries in Ridgefield goes on Safari to Africa with painter Gayle Gleckler

and Monoprint artist Tony Woolner of North Salem, NY July 12th-

September 6th. The public is invited to a reception Friday July 12th

5:00-7:00. Rockwell Art and Framing of Ridgefield

is located at 470 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877. Phone 203-894-8000.

Tony

Woolner is a professional architect who graduated from Rhode Island School of Design

and did his graduate work in Architecture at Harvard. He has won awards for his

contemporary home designs that have been featured in World Residential Design, Architectural

Digest, Casa Vogue, The New York Times, L'Architecttura, House Beautiful,

Architects Own Houses of The World and Houses Architects Live In. As an artist,

Tony has evolved an original monoprint technique over the years using a blend

of mediums to achieve his result. Tony's monoprint "Pawling" was

featured in the 34th annual Juried Ridgefield Guild of Artists Show in

September 2011.

Gayle

Gleckler has had a successful career in advertising, beginning as an Art Director

at Young & Rubicam, and eventually becoming Executive Vice President, Creative

Director at Foote, Cone and Belding. She created many award-winning campaigns,

the most well known being "I'm Gonna Wash that Gray Right Outta My Hair"

for Clairol. She then opened her own advertising agency, Gleckler and Partners,

growing it to a 17 million dollar company. Along the way she also co-wrote,

produced and cast "The Lords of Flatbush", Sylvester Stallone and

Henry Winkler's first movie. Her interest in art goes back to her studies at

University of Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Design. She went on to

graduate studies at NYU and taught Graphic Concept classes at The School of

Visual Arts in NYC. Most recently she was one of the nine artists juried in for

Westport Arts Center's SOLOS SHOW 2011, featuring only nine artists. Five of

her figure paintings were exhibited. She won First Place in the Silvermine Art

Student's Show for painting in 2007 and 2010. Both Gayle and Tony had pieces

juried in to the Putnam Arts Center Show on October 2011.

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